Description
The Government intends to issue a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) - Lackland Bus Services within the next 90 days. The contractor awarded the requirement shall be responsible for all management/supervision, personnel, vehicles, tools, materials, supplies, equipment, labor, and fuel necessary to successfully support all directed JBSA-Lackland student transportation needs. This includes daily shuttle services throughout JBSA-Lackland and scheduled and unscheduled passenger transportation to support travel requirements up to 125 miles from JBSA-Lackland. Contractor shall be required to transport Air Force recruits, basic trainees, and technical school students to various activities and locations on Joint Base San Antonio -Lackland, Texas, Kelly USA, Lackland Training Annex (LTA), Camp Bullis Texas, and various other locations in and around San Antonio TX. Along with providing student transportation support between JBSA locations, bus transportation is also required to and from the San Antonio Airport via daily shuttles and scheduled service for larger movements. On a limited basis, transportation service may be needed to support travel requirements up to 125 miles from JBSA-Lackland for training operations for several JBSA mission partners. The contractor shall ensure all drivers are familiar with primary and alternate routes for locations throughout the greater San Antonio area, including all military sites. Additionally, the contractor must also provide buses in good working order that meet the mileage/age requirements with attached working marquees in accordance with the Statement of Work in the RFP. The contractor will take directions from the Contracting Officer Representative's office via weekly bus schedules and from the on duty dispatcher for all add-on runs as well as cancellation and change requests for the current week. The contractor must have a staffed 24 hour Dispatch to ensure transportation requirements are met throughout the day. The contractor shall be responsible for providing a variety of vehicles (various seating capacity and handicap accessibility) necessary to transport the personnel. All vehicles shall be required to comply with federal, state, and local, operational, safety, and environmental guidelines and regulations. The contractor shall be an approved DOD Carrier in accordance with the Defense Travel Management Office certification requirements. Transportation load for this requirement averages between 200 and 250 runs per a day, with an average daily passenger load of 4,650 for an average annual passenger load of 1.7 million. This requirement is in direct support of the 37th Training Wing, the largest training mission in the Air Force. This action will result in a 1 year period of performance with 1 option year, with an extension of services up to six months, Firm-Fixed Price contract anticipated to commence on 1 July 2014. The NAICS code for this requirement is 485113 with a size standard of $14 million. Important Note 1: The attached Sources Sought was previously posted on Fed Biz Ops on 15 July 2013 and closed on 29 July 2013. As of the posting date of this notice, a small business set aside strategy has not yet been determined. Industry response is important since it will help the Government in determining the acquisition strategy. Therefore, if you did not previously respond to the Sources Sought with the information requested on the Sources Sought, or do not have confirmation the Government has received your response, you are highly encouraged to do so at this time. Important Note 2: Offerors for this anticipated requirement shall be Department of Defense (DoD) Transportation Certified in accordance with the Defense Travel Management Office. The Government intends to make this certification one of the evaluation criterions for this requirement. Certification requirements can be found at https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/bus.cfm.